Social
Social Cognition
The topics in this chapter are: basic cognitive abilities and social cognition; social knowledge structures and social beliefs; causal attributions; motivation and social process goals; personal control; social situation and social competence.
Introduction this chapter will consider how the social context is involved in our cognitive processes and will take a closer look at how our basic cognitive abilities influence our social cognitive processing. Also will examine the four aspects of social cognition, these aspects will relative with the following topics.
Basic cognitive abilities and social cognition at the beginning gives an example of a little boy who is hellion at times but not bad. Processing capacity: when people are busy, tired, or even very happy, then people may not be able to revise the initial judgment, the reason is older adults may have lower levels of cognitive processing resources and uses these resources less efficiently. Impression formation is the way people form and revise first impressions. Due to the examined, figure out: how people use diagnostic trait information in making initial impressions of a person and how this process varies with age. They noticed that older adults may rely more on life experiences and social rules of behavior when making their interpretations, whereas young adults were more concerned with the situational consistency of the new information presented. Also if given older adults’ experience in life, they suggest that older adults may have a negativity bias. That is they do not correct their initial impressions because negative information is more striking to them and thus affects them more strongly.
The knowledge accessibility and social judgments is the situation when we are faced with new situations, we draw on our previous experiences stored in memory. This process includes having stored representations of the social world or memories of past events, knowing how to apply those memories to
The topics in this chapter are: basic cognitive abilities and social cognition; social knowledge structures and social beliefs; causal attributions; motivation and social process goals; personal control; social situation and social competence.
Introduction this chapter will consider how the social context is involved in our cognitive processes and will take a closer look at how our basic cognitive abilities influence our social cognitive processing. Also will examine the four aspects of social cognition, these aspects will relative with the following topics.
Basic cognitive abilities and social cognition at the beginning gives an example of a little boy who is hellion at times but not bad. Processing capacity: when people are busy, tired, or even very happy, then people may not be able to revise the initial judgment, the reason is older adults may have lower levels of cognitive processing resources and uses these resources less efficiently. Impression formation is the way people form and revise first impressions. Due to the examined, figure out: how people use diagnostic trait information in making initial impressions of a person and how this process varies with age. They noticed that older adults may rely more on life experiences and social rules of behavior when making their interpretations, whereas young adults were more concerned with the situational consistency of the new information presented. Also if given older adults’ experience in life, they suggest that older adults may have a negativity bias. That is they do not correct their initial impressions because negative information is more striking to them and thus affects them more strongly.
The knowledge accessibility and social judgments is the situation when we are faced with new situations, we draw on our previous experiences stored in memory. This process includes having stored representations of the social world or memories of past events, knowing how to apply those memories to
References: Chapter: social cognition, Cavanaugh, J.C., Blanchard-Fields, F., & Norris, J.E. (2008). Adult Development and Aging (1st Canadian Edition). Toronto, ON: Nelson My thoughts and interesting I learned a lot form this chapter, because we living in the planet not alone. We should communicate with other; learn the changes of social cognition during age are very helpful. During read this chapter, I am interesting in the impression formation. The textbook tells that older adults may rely more on life experiences and social rules of behavior when making their interpretations. I am agreeing with this point, when I stay with my grandfather he always says: “the salt I ate is more than the rice you ate.” This is a Chinese proverb, means the older people have more life experiences than young people have. My grandfather always say that when he want me listen to his advice. I think I really revise the first impression by the mood, and easily give a decision by mood. Also I think I can change the impression and decision very fast. But my grandfather is not change the impression easily, when he faces a new situation or new tech products he always apply the previous experiences on it.